Urban Drift, contemporary urban strategies.

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11:10:02 Urban Drift, contemporary urban strategies.
It started on October 11 at Café Moskau in Berlin Urban Drift, from formalism to flux: mobility and new urban strategies , a conference that wants to reflect on the urban condition and the potential generated by the state of 'flow', given by the mobility of the design, which is compared with the negative impact on the global economy and mobile spaces, thus released in residual and peripheral, and strategies to 'reactivate'. Should be delivered presentations Irene McAra-Mcwilliam Professor of Interaction Design at the Royal College of Arts in London that will treat of 'Form and flow: mobility and the ecology of time', while the panel seminal 'Network Urbanism' moderated by Armin Medosch ( who will introduce the community cellullari self-built networks around the globe), and that includes the participation of James Stevens owner of the London Consume.net, which will address the question of ownership in the network self-organized, supported by Simon Worthington of the magazine (London too ' it) Mute with experimental wireless services it is offering. At the same panel there are also Pit Schulz, founder of Nettime mailing list, the net artist Shu Lea Cheang and the architect Wilfried Hackenbroich. Two Italians present in the other panel 'Re-reading the city in flux': Stefano Boeri, urban planner and Milan Guido Borelli Design at Domus Academy, while the media artist Stephen Kovats presented the report 'Examining Void as time-based and structured immateriality' . On the sidelines of the conference projections ranging from video art to documentaries (like the one on the American festival of Burning Man) or documentation of performance, as borderXing of heath bunting, just to name a few.